MINING IN THE CHAP. X. 



The enormous expense of raising the water 

 induced the parties interested to form an adit 

 for draining the district of the mines, to which 

 private individuals and other companies besides 

 the crown contributed. An Englishman, whose 

 name is not mentioned, constructed some en- 

 gines to complete the draining of these mines, 

 on condition of receiving, during ten years, what 

 should be saved in the expense of labour, and 

 is said to have erected five engines, and to have 

 gained a large sum of money by the under- 

 taking *. 



Baron Born, in the employment of the 

 Austrian government, in his survey of Hungary, 

 found in Siebengebirgen a mine from which 

 pure gold was obtained. " The lord of the 

 mine," he says, " Count Stephen von Gyulai, 

 for some reason with which I am not acquainted, 

 rarely allows any one in the service of the em- 

 peror to visit his mine; but the whole operation, 

 under the management of his Wallachian over- 

 seer, was conducted in so miserable a manner, 

 that a man must be a Wallachian to venture his 

 life by descending the shaft V 



The baron remarks that, in Hungary, and 

 even at Chemnitz, he found, in the ancient 

 workings, that none but the richest ores had 



1 See Voyages Metallurgiques, par feu M. Jars de F Aca- 

 demic Royal des Sciences de Paris, 1774. 



2 Born's Briefe iiber mineralogische Gegenstande. 



